Edouard Taufenbach
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: The hug
Silver print collage
36 x 40 cm
“After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
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Edouard Taufenbach
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: La sequance
Silver print collage
47 x 47 cm
Spéculaire “After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Edouard Taufenbach
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: La garniciòn
Silver print collage
29 x 40 cm
Spéculaire “After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Edouard Taufenbach
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: Dune
Silver print collage
50 x 30 cm
Spéculaire “After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: Waves
Silver print collage
37 x 40 cm
Spéculaire “After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Edouard Taufenbach
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: Enfants
Silver print collage
44 x 35 cm
Spéculaire “After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Edouard Taufenbach
Spéculaire: Les triplettes
Silver print collage
45 x 38 cm
Spéculaire “After years of research, Edouatd Taufenbach was able to work with an exceptional collection of anonymous images that director Sébastien Lifshitz has been gathering over several decades… By selecting with obsessive care, coherent corpuses of rare snapshots of leisure, pleasure and desire; he multiplied these silver on gelatin plates to be then fragmented and manually rearranged, sometimes using different scales, in a composition stemming from a rule of mathematical nature [that refers both to digital and the beginning of the cinema]. The latter is specific to each one of the original images which, in a way, impose it. It points to, highlights and amplifies a formal or narrative aspect. The curves of a body here, a gesture there… Conversely it also allows the complete reinterpretation of the image, the invention of a new one: Who would suspect that this bouquet of feminine silhouettes comes from a horizontal image featuring a rather sensible farandole of bathers? In any case Édouard Taufenbach has worked with an open jubilation. —I inject cinema, time and rhythm to my images. The viewer is the one who operates the fi lm strip— he says”. Étienne Hatt, Curator
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Edouard Taufenbach
EDOUARD TAUFENBACH. Francia, 1988. Vive y trabaja en París.
Graduado en Arte y Medios Digitales por la Sorbonne, en su trabajo alterna fotografía, video y expresión visual. En 2014, recibió el premio Coup de Coeur en el Festival Ici Demain y para Nuit Blanche 2015, diseñó una instalación a gran escala, SFUMATO, así como para su primera exposición individual, HOMMAGE2, en París, Bruselas y Roma. Ha sido expuesto en el Festival Circulation, la Unseen en Amsterdam y en la exposición fotográfica Approche, Francia y LIBERTÉ / COURAGE, comisariada por Jean-Pierre Blanc.
Fue artista invitado en la UAL: Camberwell College of Arts, y participó en la exposición colectiva Moving The Image, invitada por Duncan Wooldridge. Su trabajo ha sido publicado por The New York Times, The British Journal of Photography, BBC y Le Monde, entre otros medios globales que cubren artes.
En 2020, se unió a Almanaque, presentado en la exposición Espejismo, seguido de una doble exposición en París y Nueva York. Su libro "L’Image dans le miroir", editado por el prestigiado sello editorial Maison L’Artier Paris, se publicará esta primavera.
Spéculaire (Especular)
"Tras años de investigación para esta serie Taufenbach accedió al archivo del cineasta Sébastien Lifshitz, con imágenes anónimas excepcionales reunidas durante décadas. Después de seleccionar meticulosamente cuerpos coherentes de raros retratos instantáneos de ocio, placer y deseo; el artista multiplicó placas de plata sobre gelatina para luego fragmentarlas y reorganizarlas manualmente —a veces usando diferentes escalas— en collages que parecen derivados de una regla de naturaleza matemática [que refieren tanto a lo digital como a los inicios del cine].
Lo póstumo es tautológico a cada una de las imágenes originales que, en cierto modo, la impostan. Así el artista señala, destaca y amplifica sus aspectos formales o narrativo. Las curvas de un cuerpo aquí, un gesto allá ... Curiosamente, también permiten la re-interpretación completa de la imagen, con la invención de una nueva: ¿Quién sospecharía que este bouquet de siluetas femeninas, proviene de una imagen horizontal que presenta un popurrí de recatadas bañistas? En cualquier caso, Édouard Taufenbach ha trabajado con un descarado júbilo.
—Inyecto cine, tiempo y ritmo a mis imágenes. El espectador es quien opera la cinta de la película— menciona”. Étienne Hatt, curadora.